Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
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Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.
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Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.
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Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, 'That were to consider it too curiously.'
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.
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Don't allow old traditions to become permanent mental scripts for managing your life in the present. Reason: you will not be able to transform yourself to think differently and be better as you grow with age and maturity.
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If one thinks that one is happy, that is enough to be happy.
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I've never really felt comfortable co-writing. I usually go at my own speed, you know.
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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.
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The money it would cost to buy another car could be [used to] build two schools. So it's an easy choice that makes me very happy.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
